I'm fed up with Word and the tendency for docs to disappear after updating it at Micro Soft's suggestion.
So I downloaded Libre Office but I couldn't get it to open.
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kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuth… MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social - Today in Labor History August 22, 1791: Encouraged by the French and American revolutions, Toussaint Louverture led over 100,000 Haitian slaves in a revolt against the French. They were ultimately successful, making Haiti the first black republic in the world. In 1802, he was invited to parlay with the French, but was betrayed and arrested. His lieutenant, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, continued the fight, ultimately defeated the French army in 1803. The US refused recognition of Haiti until 1862, as a result of pressure from Southern slaveholders. The French demanded $21 billion In today’s dollars) in reparations for the losses to the former slaveholders, in exchange for peace and recognition of Haiti as an independent nation. The debt was financed through French banks and the U.S. bank, Citibank. The Haitians finally paid it off in 1947. However, the huge interest payments for their independence debt, and the debt incurred through the corruption of the Duvalier dynasty, have made Haiti one of the poorest nations in the western hemisphere. Prior to independence, Haiti was the richest and most productive of all of Europe’s colonies.
The best book I’ve read on the Haitian Revolution is “The Black Jacobins,” by Trinidadian socialist C.L.R. James. Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier explores the revolution in his novel, “The Kingdom of This World” (1949). You can read more about Toussaint Louverture and the slave uprising in Madison Smartt Bell’s trilogy called “All Souls' Rising” (1995) and Isabel Allende’s 2010 novel, “Island Beneath the Sea.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #haiti #Revolution #jacobins #toussaintlouverture #slavery #colonialism #books #CLRJames #novel #fiction #author #writer #isabelallende #BlackMastodon @bookstadon
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Hi Guys, I was just wondering if anyone from Bookstodon was going to be attending Fantasycon 2026 at Glasgow this coming October.
It could be a chance to meet up in person.
For more info see: britishfantasysociety.org/even…
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Fantasycon 2026
Fantasycon is the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society. Join us for three days of panels, readings, interviews, workshops and talks, as well as the British Fantasy Awards ceremony.The British Fantasy Society
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“the challenge that Hind’s novel puts to later working-class fiction is profound”
Proletarian Nights in Archie Hind’s THE DEAR GREEN PLACE
Corey Gibson, Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1 (2025)
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#Scottish #literature #novel #20thcentury #workingclass #Glasgow
Proletarian Nights in Archie Hind’s The Dear Green Place
This article argues for a reappraisal of Archie Hind's landmark Glasgow novel The Dear Green Place (1966), which represents the conflation and combination of long histories of class formation with the grind of everyday labours, and a provocation abou…Scholar Commons
The manuscript for Archie Hind’s THE DEAR GREEN PLACE, along with other papers & materials, are now in an archive at the University of Strathclyde
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#Scottish #literature #novel #20thcentury #workingclass #Glasgow
Dear Green Place author Archie Hind gets 'limelight he deserves'
Archie Hind only published one novel in his lifetime but it was an important one.Pauline McLean (BBC News)
Archie Hind (1928–2008), author of THE DEAR GREEN PLACE, was born #OTD, 3 June
“The only other 20th-century novel I know that places a writer’s struggle in an equally well-imagined city is Nabokov’s THE GIFT”
—Alasdair Gray
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With Hind's Sight: An Appreciation of Archie Hind's The Dear Green Place...
Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for September is the new edition of Archie Hind's classic novel The Dear Green Place, published on the Polygon imprint of Birlinn Ltd.Alistair Braidwood (Scots Whay Hae!)
Ganz großartiger witziger Entwicklungsroman über eine junge Engländerin, die in den 70ern & frühen 80ern zwischen Feminismus & Misogynie versucht, ihr Leben auf die Reihe zu kriegen. Aber CN: Kindstod.
#Literature #novel #comingofage #womenwriting #femaleauthor
Could you help me make a list of #solarpunk #shortStory , #book and #novel about #disaster and #disasterRelief ?
On Earth if possible.
From the top of my head -
- uncannymagazine.com/article/th…
- Shadow Among The Leaves by Ana Sun
- dreamforgemagazine.com/story/d… (arguably, it's more a flooded setting than an event)
- goodreads.com/book/show/432632… - multiple disasters
#writing #literature #climate #climateChange #rescue #fiction
The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civil disorder or both.Uncanny Magazine
Hier reden vier Könner*innen über das Schreiben historisch fundierter (Genre-)Literatur & über ihre Konzepte von Geschichte & Vergangenheit. & was es heißt, sich als nicht vorgesehene Autor-Person (in) (eine) Geschichte zu schreiben. Aber: neue Titel auf TBR 😬
#podcast #literature #sff #horror #novel #lqbtqia #queer #history
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Never Forget Where We Came From (with Tananarive Due and Nicola Griffith)
Podcast-Folge · Our Opinions Are Correct · 23.01.2025 · 1 Std.Apple Podcasts